I began to understand that suffering and disappointments and melancholy are there not to vex us or cheapen us or deprive us of our dignity but to mature and transfigure us.
HERMANN HESSEWhen you like someone, you like them in spite of their faults. When you love someone, you love them with their faults.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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To achieve the possible, we must attempt the impossible again and again.
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And all the voices, all the goals, all the yearnings, all the sorrows, all the pleasures, all the good and evil, all of them together was the world. All of them together was the stream of events, the music of life.
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Love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is only your aversion to it that hurts, nothing else.
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It taught him how to listen — how to listen with a quiet heart and a waiting soul, open soul, without passion, without desire, without judgment, without opinion.
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Life is waiting everywhere, the future is flowering everywhere, but we only see a small part of it and step on much of it with our feet
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Art is the contemplation of the world in a state of grace.
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I live in my dreams — that’s what you sense. Other people live in dreams, but not in their own. That’s the difference.
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Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.
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When you like someone, you like them in spite of their faults. When you love someone, you love them with their faults.
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All life was a breath exhaled by God. All dying was a breath inhaled by God.
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The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Who would be born must first destroy a world. The bird flies to God. The God’s name is Abraxas.
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The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.
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Any attempt to replace a personal conscience by a collective conscience does violence to the individual and is the first step toward totalitarianism.
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Madness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom.
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The truth is lived, not taught.
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